• soylentgreenenergy@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Well, if you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, its hard to deny the facts. Its a corrupt system. I know everyone is all calling trump a criminal for this and that, but its like, yea, hi, welcome to America. The crazy thing is the idea that ANY person in high political office is NOT a criminal. You just don’t get that high up in American politics unless you’re playing dirty pool. Theres a million things one can criticize Trump for, but it just makes no sense to use the “criminal” argument unless youve spent your life living under a rock.

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      13 hours ago

      I’ve been saying this all day now, when the Nazi eventually cries about the higher food prices because they deported all the immigrants our duty is to tell them: shut the fuck up, you voted for this.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Very accurate meme. This is me seeing that the votes between the two candidates are somehow close. This is me seeing how one of the two is even allowed to run at all.

    • omgarm@feddit.nl
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      21 hours ago

      I think it’s insane how Democrats keep getting blamed for not picking the right people to run when Trump can seemingly say or do anything at all and not lose a percent of support.

      One of the USA sides has to be perfect and the other can do nothing and it will still be close. Insanity.

      • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        Because most left wingers are pissy pants babies that don’t understand that compromise is an important part of politics.

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          14 hours ago

          Didn’t the Republican senators/house members decide to vote against a border protection bill just to spite the other side? That’s not compromising.

      • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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        20 hours ago

        Literally a magic 8 ball in a pile of bullshit making decisions would be better than trump.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    This is so. fucked. up. I’m not American (and thank fuck for that), but I’m actually feeling so ill and worried for y’all. I think it’s time for me to block/unfollow any American accounts and news cause shit’s about to get really fucking bleak.

    • underwire212@lemm.ee
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      14 hours ago

      I’m American. I’m so disappointed in my fellow Americans. And I’d wager around half of us feel similarly disgusted by these results.

      Just know not all of us voted for this fascist. I have been trying to organize more and get my friends to organize against this. Clearly civil disobedience is needed, so I think organizing and donating to organizations that support anti-fascism would help.

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      21 hours ago

      I went on holiday to the USA this summer. We had time, money, had never been and feared/expected the USA to elect Trump again. Looks like I made the right call. Stay strong USA.

  • arc@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    America is fucked. Ukraine is fucked. The world is fucked. The only glimmer of hope is Trump drops dead before his term is out.

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      21 hours ago

      The issue is that the heritage foundation has put JD vanced to take over for Trump when he dies

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        14 hours ago

        He’s still there today whispering in Trump’s ear. At least if Trump were out of the picture it might derail the presidency and allow some of the weirder weirdos & grifters to be shown the the door. It may also reset republicanism to some degree since they don’t have to care what some narcissist dickhead thinks at any given moment or pursue his vendettas. Also it would be karmic.

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        18 hours ago

        Which, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, is actually scarier than just Trump. Both are nightmares, Vance is young and wants to make tech CEOs kings

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          That’s the seriously fucked part of all of this… Trump will run his 4 years because the worst of us never die, then the DNC runs the resurrected corpse of Regan to court the moderate vote again, loses in another landslide to Vance, Vance gets 2 terms… By then Musk runs some fiefdom, Bezos runs his own, Zuckerberg run his Hawaiian fiefdom… After that if I’m not dead I’ll make sure I am.

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          17 hours ago

          Of course. He’s bankrolled by Peter Thiel and they make no false claims about it. Dude is a vindictive brat with billions to his name and absolutely 0 shame. He bankrolled Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit over a grudge.

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    22 hours ago

    I will now cut back on all social media. Lemmy included as I get a depression from ehars happening in the US. What is painfully obvious is that we Europeans must stop fucking around and federate do that we have a fucking chance wedged in between despots and idiots.

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      13 hours ago

      The current trend is sadly in the other direction. Fascists are rising to power and the countrys get more separated. More border controllers are happening.

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    22 hours ago

    America wasn’t built on just immigrants, it was built upon a certain type of immigrants: opportunists who placed greed above everything else. It shows.

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      17 hours ago

      The first waves, sure. Once you get to the Irish escaping the famine or the Italians escaping Mussolini, it became more about just survival.

      The OGs were racist as fuck towards them, too.

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    22 hours ago

    I kept trying to tell people that polls and surveys is just astrology for math nerds